Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Hamilton Houston

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston.

Last updated on December 19, 2024.

Charles Hamilton Houston was a prominent African-American lawyer, Dean of Howard University Law School, and NAACP first special counsel, or Litigation Director. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Houston played a significant role in dismantling Jim Crow laws, especially attacking segregation in schools and racial housing covenants. He earned the title "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow".

American - Lawyer | September 3, 1895 - April 22, 1950

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The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

Charles Hamilton Houston

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.

Charles Hamilton Houston

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

Charles Hamilton Houston

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

Charles Hamilton Houston

A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.

Charles Hamilton Houston

Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.

Charles Hamilton Houston

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

Charles Hamilton Houston

A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.

Charles Hamilton Houston

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

Charles Hamilton Houston

Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost

Charles Hamilton Houston

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

Charles Hamilton Houston

Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

Charles Hamilton Houston